Language "is a place of struggle," says bell hooks. The relationship between art and feminism is complex and stratified, for this reason the definition of "feminist art" is tricky. I attempt here a recognition of theoretical landmarks and epistemologies come forth in the debate that examined the intersection between artistic practices and experiments of feminist policies, from the historical speeches of Nochlin, Pollock, Phelan to the Italian anomaly marked by Carla Lonzi’s eccentric work, up to to the most recent openings. From this scheme, questions active at present appear, relating to the patriarchal myth of authorship, to the status of the work, to the invisibility of material processes and to cultural appropriation. The prospect is one of a thought of practices destabilizing the canon through strategies of decolonization, countercultural practices, "positional geographies" and new epistemologies.
Art Criticism and the State of Feminist Art Criticism